4 Mac Apps You Didn’t Know You Had

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You love your Mac for everything it does well, but what about the things you didn’t know that it did. That also goes for apps you didn’t know that are already installed on your Mac and you just didn’t know about.

I have compiled a list of my favorite little unknown apps/utilities that are secretly installed and waiting for you to use on your Mac. Check them out .

1. Grapher

Grapher is an app that’s name obviously gives it’s main functionality away – it’s a graphing app. This app is super helpful to those that need to frequently graph 2D and 3D graphs from equations, for example students. It’s actually fairly easy to use, you just open the app, select which graph type you want to make, which are categorized by 2D or 3D graphs, and enter your equation. The app will graph for you after entry. Super simple, looks good, and works!

2. Grab

Grab is essentially the app that takes the place of using screen capture shortcuts. You can open Grab when you want to take screen shots and need a few more options besides the typical screen capture shortcuts. Grab on your Mac also gives you the option of taking a timed screen shot. This is perfect to use if you want to take a snapshot of an action performed on your Mac.

3. Disk Utility

Disk Utility is one of your more versatile apps on your Mac, as it’s capable of performing a number of disk-related functions. With Disk Utility you can burn and erase CD and DVDs, burn .ISO files as DVD, and create DMGs. There are a number of functions Disk Utility can perform, to read about more of them read http://kb.iu.edu/data/aoxp.html .

4. VoiceOver Utility

You may feel as if the name gives away the apps function, but it doesn’t really. The Mac VoiceOver Utility helps those that are blind or have poor vision use their Macs. VoiceOver is simply a screen reader, it reads the text that appears on the screen through your Mac speakers – perfect for those that are dyslexic as well.

To learn more about how to use VoiceOver Utility: Apple VoiceOver

Remember, you can find all of these apps by searching for them in Spotlight using the shortcut ( ⌘-Space bar ) or just by clicking at the top right corner of your screen. You can also access these apps by opening the Utilities folder on your Mac. So which “secret” app/utility was your favorite find? Which one did you already know about, use, and love? Let us know.